tRNA dysregulation and disease

EA Orellana, E Siegal, RI Gregory - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract tRNAs are key adaptor molecules that decipher the genetic code during translation
of mRNAs in protein synthesis. In contrast to the traditional view of tRNAs as ubiquitously …

Mitochondrial disease in children

S Rahman - Journal of internal medicine, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mitochondrial disease presenting in childhood is characterized by clinical, biochemical and
genetic complexity. Some children are affected by canonical syndromes, but the majority …

Molecular mechanisms of phenotypic variability in monogenic autoinflammatory diseases

I Aksentijevich, O Schnappauf - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2021 - nature.com
Monogenic autoinflammatory diseases are a group of rheumatologic disorders caused by
dysregulation in the innate immune system. The molecular mechanisms of these disorders …

NSUN2 introduces 5-methylcytosines in mammalian mitochondrial tRNAs

L Van Haute, SY Lee, BJ McCann… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Expression of human mitochondrial DNA is indispensable for proper function of the oxidative
phosphorylation machinery. The mitochondrial genome encodes 22 tRNAs, 2 rRNAs and 11 …

The molecular genetics of sideroblastic anemia

S Ducamp, MD Fleming - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2019 - ashpublications.org
The sideroblastic anemias (SAs) are a group of inherited and acquired bone marrow
disorders defined by pathological iron accumulation in the mitochondria of erythroid …

Mitochondrial DNA transcription and translation: clinical syndromes

V Boczonadi, G Ricci, R Horvath - Essays in biochemistry, 2018 - portlandpress.com
Diagnosing primary mitochondrial diseases is challenging in clinical practice. Although,
defective oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) is the common final pathway, it is unknown …

Defective mitochondrial rRNA methyltransferase MRM2 causes MELAS-like clinical syndrome

C Garone, AR D'Souza, C Dallabona… - Human molecular …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Defects in nuclear-encoded proteins of the mitochondrial translation machinery cause early-
onset and tissue-specific deficiency of one or more OXPHOS complexes. Here, we report a 7 …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial metabolism in major neurological diseases

Z Zhou, GL Austin, LEA Young, LA Johnson, R Sun - Cells, 2018 - mdpi.com
Mitochondria are bilayer sub-cellular organelles that are an integral part of normal cellular
physiology. They are responsible for producing the majority of a cell's ATP, thus supplying …

Ocular involvement in monogenic autoinflammatory disease

I Maccora, E Marrani, MV Mastrolia… - Autoimmunity …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Objective Monogenic Autoinflammatory diseases (AIDs) are a broad spectrum of
rare hereditary diseases whose ocular involvement has not been well characterized yet …

[HTML][HTML] Pathogenic variants in glutamyl-tRNAGln amidotransferase subunits cause a lethal mitochondrial cardiomyopathy disorder

MW Friederich, S Timal, CA Powell… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Mitochondrial protein synthesis requires charging mt-tRNAs with their cognate amino acids
by mitochondrial aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, with the exception of glutaminyl mt-tRNA (mt …